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A normal girl living her biggest, messiest dreams.

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These are my unfiltered adventures, musings and stories.
I talk about birds, coffee and overcoming personal fears too much.

60
ish countries
7
continents
10
odd years
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My recent adventures

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A summer’s day amongst the vineyards of North Canterbury

Show me the Reisling!

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All the mean, nasty and godawful hateful things people say to me online

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Solo and single in the most romantic place in the world

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A broken robot: the face of a burnout

My whole life I’ve always been told that my face reads like an ...
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Where I screwed up big time

That one time I crashed a scooter in Bali

A week ago I found myself upside down in a ditch full of ...
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Getting Naked in Istanbul

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This might be my funniest story of all time

Guys, the funniest thing happened to me the other day. Now, I know I ...
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Mother of plants @node.nz 🌿 Nature frother & #birdnerd 🐧 Friend of kākāpō and the girl with the whales 🐳 let’s help save them here ⬇️

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Happy quit-my-job-to-blog Anniversary to me! . 8 y Happy quit-my-job-to-blog Anniversary to me! . 8 years and counting since I last had a boss, and I plan on keeping it that way! Here’s to living our lives on our terms, the good and the bad. Can’t wait to see what the next 8 years have in store ❤️
Like many around the world, I didn’t grow up wit Like many around the world, I didn’t grow up with female role models of women in the outdoors. As a kid I was super involved with Girl Scouts, camping, canoeing and hiking (I used to have one of those big metal frame Kelty backpacks in deep blue that weighed a TON). But as I grew up, I spent less and less time outside chasing adventure. This is a common story, with many stats showing that girls and women are offered outdoor opportunities less, especially as they get older. Only with my move to New Zealand in my mid-twenties did a passion for nature ignite within me again. My feet carried me up mountains and my heart yearned for sunlit valleys and rocky mountaintops dotted with snow. My work and my travel begun to spin towards nature-based adventures. No where gripped me more than Switzerland, where I’ve visited more than half a dozen times in recent years. As travel became visual and the world evolves, more and more women have been out in nature again, a renaissance of empowered females taking on the mountains in a very-much male-dominated space. I write for them. I meet them on my travels. I love it. And when I saw that @myswitzerland has made female travel a core part of their operations, I whooped with glee. They’ve got over 200 experiences on women’s only adventures, created and guided by only women, from mountaineering courses to yoga retreats an everything in between. This is how you lead as a business. I can’t wait to get back to Switzerland and back to the Alps for adventures, as well as shameless amounts of raclette. #myswitzerland #inLOVEwithSWITZERLAND #ineedswitzerland #mylucerne #switzerland #lucerne @ilove_lucerne
Those chilly nights and time change got me all exc Those chilly nights and time change got me all excited for winter in New Zealand 🤘
Never met a swing bridge I didn’t love 🌿 @the Never met a swing bridge I didn’t love 🌿 @thepaparoatrack @docgovtnz @jimpollardgoesclick . #paparoatrack #paparoa #newzealand #nzmustdo #punakaiki
Backcountry huts are at the heart of New Zealand’s modern culture and identity. And anyone who has spent some time in nature here knows there’s a difference between huts AND Great Walk huts, which are generally pretty fiiiiiiine! It’s not often we get new huts added to the reservoir, so I was very excited to check out both the Pororari and Moonlight Tops, purpose built for this new tramp (USB power points nonwithstanding). It’s a very beautiful thing to fall asleep in comfort, enveloped by nature (and perhaps your neighbors gentle snoring), carried there on your own two feet but not having to bring a tent. Sometimes I wonder if I will end up living off the grid in my own hut. It’s totally possible 😊 @docgovtnz . #paparoa #paparoatrack #punakaiki #nzmustdo #newzealand #moonlightopshut #pororari #pororarihut
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Who is Young Adventuress?

Hi, I'm Liz, and I got my first taste for traveling when I was 16 years old. On my own, 12 years and 50 something countries later, my wanderlust has only grown and the list of countries I want to visit longer. After living in Spain for the past few years and returning home for a stint, I then quit my job and moved to New Zealand and I've been here ever since. Follow my misadventures as I wander, eat, and photograph my way around the world

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